My Studio at Jouy-le-Moutier
Medium
Etching in dark brown or warm black on blue-green laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 24.6 × 21.4 cm (9 11/16 × 8 7/16 in.); Sheet: 28.4 × 24.3 cm (11 3/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
29094
Art Historical Context
Step into the cozy confines of Louis Auguste Lepère personal workspace with *My Studio at Jou-le-Moutier* (1893), a etching that offers a rare glimpse into the artist's daily life. Created in the waning years of 19th-century France, print captures Lepère's studio in the village of Jouy-leoutier, just northwest of Paris. As a leading French printmaker and illustrator, Lepère was celebrated for his meticulous depictions of urban and rural scenes, often infused with a poetic realism influenced by Japanese woodcuts and the etching revival of his era. Rendered in dark brown or warm black ink on di...
About the Artist
Louis Auguste Lepère · 1849–1918
Louis-Auguste Lepère (1849–1918) was born in Paris on November 30 to the sculptor François Lepère, immersing him early in the artistic world. At age thirteen, he apprenticed in the studio of the English wood engraver Joseph Burn-Smeeton, training there from 1862 to 1867, and later attended drawing courses under Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran at the Petite École (now École nationale supérieure des art...